First Soundbridge Widgets

In the previous post I described
how to use Netpbm images to display icons on the display of a Roku Soundbridge.

Today I made some progress writing some display ‘scriptlets’. I now have
various screens that display network traffic statistics, for example:

And also weather, without icons for now…

The scripts that produces these screens are all in a directory on my main
Linux box. A daemon process iterates over all scripts and executes each of them
to produce a screen. The output of the scripts is piped to netcat, like
described in the previous post, to send each screen to the Roku.

It’s all pretty ugly code that I kludged together. It seems that it does
work pretty well, though.
Also, considering the age of the Roku and it not being produced anymore
I think it’s also not really worth cleaning this up to something that is
worthy of publishing here.